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Osaka clinic arsonist and murder suspect of 25 people dies
Buddhism and the Japanese calligrapher Sugawara Mitsushige: Bodhisattva Kannon
Afghan females protest for rights in Kabul: Warning shots heard
Japan art and influence of China: Sakaki Hyakusen and Buddhism
Lebanon and President Aoun hints at closer ties with Gulf Powers
China and Japan Defense Ministers hold frank talks on Tokyo’s request
Sudan tensions erupt again after protests in Khartoum
Japan poetry and a life blighted by ill-health: Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902)
Islamists kill many in Burkina Faso and Niger
Japan art and Hishida Shunsō: A life cut short
Russia condemns NATO and US: You expanded NATO to the east – Japan and South Korea
Japan fears rapid increase in Omicron Covid-19 variant
Japan art and Gyoshu Hayami (1894-1935)
TPLF armed forces to leave other regions of Ethiopia
Japan to provide more economic support to Afghanistan
Super Typhoon Rai kills at least 100 people in the Philippines
Japan to reduce Covid-19 booster waiting time for the most vulnerable
Osaka fire kills many in a suspected arson attack
Japan art and culture: Kaihō Yūshō (1533-1615), Buddhism, and China
Imperfect return of PM Hamdok backed by Saudi Arabia, UAE, UK, and the US
Moderna Covid-19 vaccine for booster shots sanctioned in Japan
Belarus opposition gets long prison sentences: Draconian leadership of Lukashenko
Japan art and the fusion of ideas: Watanabe Shikō (1683-1755)
Japan wants to improve evacuation missions after the Afghanistan debacle: US failure
Burkina Faso and Niger kill roughly 100 Islamist terrorists
Art of Japan and Ikeda Koson: Hinoki Cypresses
Japan art and rinpa: Buddhism and high culture
Russian Federation warns Ukraine not to threaten Donbas: NATO military weapons
Japan supports the attendance of Taiwan at WHO gathering: China and democracy
South Korea in Covid-19 surge: Vaccine immunity waning among the elderly
The Chinese artist Shen Quan and his stay in Edo Japan: Sublime nature
India and the Russian Federation to strengthen ties: Putin to meet Modi
Mali massacre of bus passengers by Islamists and UN compound hit
Japan art and Yanagisawa Kien: Edo artist influenced by Buddhism, China, and Confucianism
Burkina Faso and Islamists are heaping sorrow on 1.3 million internally displaced
Japan art and the individualism of Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754-1799)
Japan denies entry to foreigners from nations of new Omicron Covid variant
Uganda with DRC support bombs ADF Islamists in eastern DRC
Japan art and bijan-ga (beautiful ladies) of the Edo Period
Japan border controls tightened on new Covid variant first noted in Botswana
Japan art and self-portrait while dying: Iwasa Matabei (1578-1650)
Australia sends troops to the Solomon Islands: Chinatown attacked again
China and Russia to increase military drills in Northeast Asia: Japan geopolitics
Bus accident kills 45 in Bulgaria: Passengers mainly from North Macedonia
Japan art and the intriguing Hanabusa Itchō (1652-1724)
Sudan coup leaders reinstate PM Abdalla Hamdok: Tensions remain
Cameroon, Chad, and Nigeria to alter fight against Islamist terrorists: Instability in Africa
Uganda kills Islamist ADF terrorist recruiting cleric after the recent attack
Japan and record $490 billion stimulus package: Debt and right target?
United States drug overdose deaths reach 100,000 in 12 month period
Japan to allow people to mix third Covid-19 vaccine shot
Pakistan and religious minorities: Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, and others feel betrayed
Art of 12th century Japan: Mitsunaga and a glimpse into the ending of the Heian Period
Japan Covid-19 fully vaccinated nearing 75 percent: G-7 political factors
India faces possible US sanctions over S-400 air defense systems from Russia
PM Kishida appoints Hayashi to the dismay of Abe and Aso: Foreign Minister and China
Sudan and new ruling council led by General al-Burhan
Ethiopia crisis: TPLF forces accused of raping women in the Amhara region
Presidential candidate in South Korea expresses doubt of any military alliance with Japan
Covid-19 numbers in Japan continue to decline
PM Kishida in anti-China Human Rights post: Japan and anti-Armenian Turkey can’t let go
Iraq assassination attempt against PM al-Kadhimi fails
Art of Japan and Hishida Shunsō: Nature and Buddhism
ANC in worst election result since Apartheid ended in South Africa
Quad for Sudan to support stability: Saudi Arabia, UAE, UK, and the US
Tokyo train attacker had planned outside attack first: Desires the death penalty
Ethiopia crisis: TPLF and Oromo forces seek to expand
Art of Japan and the Middle Kingdom (China): Buddhism, Confucianism, and other ideas
Opposition leader in Japan to resign: Failure of Yukio Edano
Yemen war: Mosque and religious building hit by Houthi missile attack
Japan election result: Clear mandate for PM Kishida
Japan election: LDP and junior partner Komeito re-elected
Tokyo knife attack on Keio Line then fire set on the train carriage
Rich elites ply COP26 in Glasgow: A city where poorer males die 15.4 years earlier
Ethiopia crisis: Tigrayan forces claim to take a strategic town in Amhara
Art of Japan and exquisite birds by Yamamoto Kōitsu (1843-1905)
Sudan on tenterhooks: Mass protests against the military coup
Japan election looms but apathy rules the day!
Art of Japan and Hōitsu: A delightful triptych of nature by this Buddhist monk
President el-Sisi lifts the State of Emergency in Egypt: Anti-Christian attacks and Muslim Brotherhood
Sudan in crisis after the military coup: PM Hamdok arrested
Japan art and continuity despite rapid political changes: Sakai Dōitsu (1845-1913)
China and Russia in joint navy patrol: the Sea of Japan, Western Pacific, and the East China Sea
PM Viktor Orbán of Hungary says, “We’re David who Goliath is best off steering clear of”
Japanese Death Poem: The final moments of Prince Ōtsu (663-686)
Japanese Buddhist poetry from centuries ago
State of Emergency in Ecuador: “One enemy and that is drug trafficking”
Yemen and UNICEF says 10,000 children killed or injured since the war began
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